by Catalina Camia, USA TODAY

by Catalina Camia, USA TODAY

Maybe Virginia's governors should have been featured on MTV's Pranked.

As has become tradition, Republican Bob McDonnell left some items in the governor's mansion in Richmond as a joke for newly sworn-in Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

The Democrat told his Cabinet on Monday that McDonnell left an alarm clock in a drawer that went off early Sunday morning. McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman who was sworn in Saturday as Virginia's 72nd governor, was already out of bed.

"But the first lady was not up yet," McAuliffe said about his wife, Dorothy, according to CNN.

Joe St. George, a reporter with CBS News in Richmond, tweeted a picture of a stuffed black bear that McAuliffe found in his office bathroom - another gift from McDonnell.

In 2010, when McDonnell took office, he said he would hear cellphones ringing from different parts of the governor's mansion. They had been planted in mysterious places by his predecessor, Democrat Tim Kaine, and would ring at different times. McDonnell told WRVA radio that he had been "spooked" for a few days by Kaine's "rather dastardly ghost trick."

Kaine, meanwhile, discovered a cardboard cutout of his fellow Democrat and previous governor, Mark Warner, that was standing in the shower, according to The Washington Post.

Somehow, we think Patrick Henry did not do the same to Thomas Jefferson in the 1700s.